Tell that special someone that they’re awesome – with a card that says You Are Awesome. They’re sure to get the message ;) I was inspired to make this card because I personally would love to get one. The idea of someone taking a moment to send me a card that tells me I’m awesome, well, that’s just cool. Say it with words: You Are Awesome card I made this card with some pretty bare essentials. The words are cut out from my Cricut Expression using the Paper Lace Cricut Cartridge and font option. I used the Cricut Craft Room [...]Read full article

Well, not really trouble. At least, not yet. But there are definitely monkeys! I recently secured my dream machine – a cricut! – and have been cutting out paper shapes like crazy. The problem I’ve run into is that once I have the paper cut, the pieces don’t always fit together how I thought they would. So with this card, I decided to go back to my usual way of creating a handmade card – starting with a stamp! I also recently purchased the Inkadinkado® cling stamp set of kids quotes, which has adorable phrases for cards. [...]Read full article

I’m a big fan of Pinterest these days. Does it waste a lot of my time? Um … yeah. It will probably do the same for you if you’re unlucky enough to fall under it’s charms (but you’ll be so happy in your delusions that you won’t see it as unlucky). Initially the appeal was to collect things I ‘some day’ aspired to make or d. That in itself wasn’t a huge problem. The big problem came about when I became so inspired by others projects that I started doing my own versions. Obviously the end results are fun [...]Read full article